ESPN Chooses Admiral Video’s FiOPS POV System for MLB Broadcasts

April 4, 2015

The behind-the-plate perspective is enabled by the small size of the camera and integrated FiOPS system.

Sports Video Group reports that ESPN has announced a commitment to showing live K-Zone pitch-tracking graphics on every pitch for each MLB game they broadcast this season. In addition, they will utilize K-Zone 3D technology to show the strike zone in 3D during some replays.

Enabling the behind-the-plate perspective that ESPN will show is Admiral Video’s FiOPS Fiber Optic POV System. Overcoming the challenges that placing a conventional camera in the netting behind home plate would pose, the FiOPS system combines the Marshall Electronics CV500-MB2 camera (which measures less than 1.5″ in each dimension) with Admiral Video’s integrated power, video, remote control, and fiber-optic solution. This means that the camera can be unobtrusively mounted in the netting behind home plate.

More information about the FiOPS system can be found on our website here.